Rural America Delivery of Standard of Care Acute Stroke Treatment

Welcome to the Advancement of Rural America Acute Stroke Treatment with Ambulance Based Hyperbaric Oxygen

Presently there are 112,000,000 Rural Americans who do not have access to Acute Stroke Standard of Care because they live too far away from major Joint Commission Approved Stroke Centers to be given the only FDA approved treatment for ischemic stroke within the FDA required post stroke time window for administration. This project is developing Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber Equipped Stroke Ambulances that will put the acute stroke patient's brain in a safe stasis for long distance transport to a major U.S. Stroke Center for the FDA approved treatment. One such ambulance for each major stroke center in the United States will provide a Nationwide system able to capture 102,000,000 of the 112,000,000 unserved Rural Americans.

15 Minutes (11 miles) Standard Ambulance

2 Hours (90 Miles) Hyperbaric 02 Stroke Ambulance

Please donate and help us develop and build the first prototype hyperbaric oxygen acute stroke treatment ambulance.

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NEWS HIGHLIGHTS

Wake Forest Baptist Researcher Recognized by International SocietyJames
McCormick, Ph.D., Director of Aerospace, Hyperbaric and Undersea Medicine
Research in the Department of Anesthesiology at Wake Forest Baptist
Medical Center (on the left in the picture), has been recognized as a Fellow
of Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine by the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical
Society (UHMS) at their Annual Scientific Meeting in Saint Louis, June 20,
2014. Presenting the Award to Dr. McCormick in the center of the
picture is Dr. Peter Bennett, Executive Secretary of the UHMS, and on the right
is Dr. John Feldmeier, President of the UHMS.

This honor is given to members
of UHMS in good standing who have
devoted significant time and effort to the practice or advancement of Undersea
and Hyperbaric Medicine, achieved a high level of expertise in their field, and
demonstrate professional and ethical standards consistent with the aims and
expectations of the UHMS.

UHMS is an international, non-profit organization that serves
as an important source of scientific and medical
information pertaining to hyperbaric medicine.
The Society was formed in 1967 at the University of Pennsylvania Medical
Center Institute for Environmental Medicine.

Wake Forest Health Sciences of the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center is
working to help acute stroke patients in the United States. The goal is to
develop a prototype stroke treatment ambulance equipped with a hyperbaric
oxygen chamber to extend patient availability and effectiveness of tPA FDA
approved stroke treatment for thousands more stroke patients each year. (Full Article)

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: James G. McCormick, PhD Director of Aerospace, Hyperbaric & Undersea Medicine Research, Department of Anesthesiology Past, Director of Research and Associate Professor of Otolaryngology, Wake Forest School of Medicine Past, Chairman of Program Development for the World Federation of Neurology Past, Visiting Professor of Psychology with Rank of Full Professor, Wake Forest University

“This research really excites me in two ways! First, it is a community-based project and that makes it unique. Second, if stroke symptoms can be reversed with hyperbaric oxygen, then embolus-dissolving therapy may be able to minimize the brain damage associated with the stroke. Outcomes could dramatically improve.” ~ Dr. Raymond Roy

"Dr. Jim McCormick, Dr. Ray Roy, Dr. Tim Houle, and Dr. Quinn McCutchen in our Anesthesiology Department have pioneered a cutting edge translational science approach to improving acute stroke patient care for North Carolina and the United States. As I have participated in U.S. Navy planning meetings for this project, I have been extremely impressed with the world class talent that has come together from many disciplines to insure success of this invaluable project." ~ Dr. Joseph Tobin

Dr. Jim McCormick seen below in 1998 at an early Hyperbaric Oxygen Stroke Treatment Planning Meeting in Washington D.C. with Dr. James Toole and keynote speaker, Astronaut/U.S. Senator John Glenn. At this time Dr. Toole was Director of the Stroke Research Center and Professor of Neurology at Wake Forest School of Medicine and President of the World Federation of Neurology. John Glenn was the fist American astronaut to orbit the Earth in 1962. Shortly after appearing with Dr. McCormick and Dr. Toole in 1998, he returned to space on a Space Shuttle research mission. Meeting: World Federation of Neurology Congress on Cerebral Ischemia, Vascular Dementia, Epilepsy and CNS Injury - New Aspects of Prevention and Treatment from Space and Underwater Explorations. Silver Plate reads: "Senator John Glenn - God Speed on your STS-95 Space Shuttle Flight - World Federation of Neurology."

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Our published medical research indicates that a Hyperbaric Oxygen Chamber Equipped Stroke Treatment Ambulance would extend the safe 3-hour FDA approved window for administration of brain blood circulation clot-dissolving treatment and produce a dramatic improvement of the positive benefit of the treatment. This would open up better acute stroke care for thousands of stroke patients in North Carolina and the United States.

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